David Bowie is not active in music at the moment, but this year he has inspired three movies, a ballet and much more, including both Tommy Lee and the 2012 Pulitzer Prizewinning poet, an assistant professor at Princeton.
Professor Tracy K. Smith’s book of poetry, Life on Mars, won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Now that’s cred! The book’s title of course named after Bowie’s hit song from the Hunky Dory album.

Tracy K Smith 2012 Pulitzer Prizewinner
She calls Bowie the ‘Pope of Pop’ and credits him with inspiring her:
“What was so powerful about Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust era to me was the sense
that the imagination is capable of creating a whole new world
and a whole new sense of self and
I really have always just been so grateful for that.
I wanted to find a way of acknowledging that in my work” Continue reading →
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